’ She gestured to her husband, who was reading a crime drama in a chaise lounge beside the pool. ‘Mark, say hi to John! He’s a paramedic, if any...of us dusty farts falls out, we’re in good hands!’ He laughed. ‘Hey John, good to see you! Hopefully we won’t need your professional services here.’ ‘You know it.’ I replied. I left the pool and took a walk around the nature trails they’d laid out, thoroughly enjoying the sights of birds I’d never seen before and a virtually unspoiled (except for the. That’s the difference in us, I mean her and me, not you and me. She’s very different, being round there, bit thicker and she can’t hear us,” snickered Gus. Thank goodness, I mused, she’d be really shitty.“Did you meet that stranger over the weekend?” I queried. “Very different ... what’s her name er... ?” “Oh you mean Sel. Yes I did, bit of an old sort of interloper on our patch.” Gus giggled. “Oh ho. hang on. Here we go.”The light changed, there was less surrounding noise. She found herself. For years, it had just been her and me. She neededme, but she had needed me too much and in the wrong way and it hadalmost cost me my life.It was no use getting mad at her; whenever I would say something abouthow awful she had been, she would just hang her head and agree, sayingshe didn't blame me at all, I was completely right to say what I said.It is hard to fight somebody who won't fight back.So we made kind of a cold peace between us. We were not a cozy familyunit, but we were able to share. Fir mujhe next subah bhabhi na uthaya. Thodi der baad bhabhi coffee laai aur humna saath main coffee pe aur fir breakfast kiya.Fir hum dono TV dekhna laga. TV pe Hollywood movie chal rahi thi. Aaj bhi kal wala scene aa gaya to bhabhi fir hasne lagi. Main bola, “Bhabhi ab to btaado ki aap kyo hass rahi ho.”Fir bhabhi na niche ki or ishara kiya to maine dekha ki meri capri ek part se upar uthi hui thi. To main bhabhi ko bola, “Bhabhi ya to kaafi bada hogaya.” To bhabhi boli ki, “Tum iska kuch.